Le Charmel

Aisne · CA de la Région de Château-Thierry · INSEE 02164

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 13.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 16 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Charmel (INSEE 02164) is in Aisne (02), part of CA de la Région de Château-Thierry. Population 323 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 13.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 16 % of the 17,939 communes of a similar size.

Compare this with communes of a similar size. The score measures how well a place is served relative to its own size band, and larger communes score higher as a rule — so it reads meaningfully against another village, and misleadingly against a town.

Measured but not scored in this model: Market. See the methodology for why.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.71	10	7.05
Housing mix	0.83	5	4.13

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 0 of 2

One square per service type, shaded by how many: none, one, a few, five or more. A blank square means none was counted — the sources do not distinguish “none here” from “not counted”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. ^[3,4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 206 peak 2007: 328 2023: 323 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 325 (2012) → 323 (2023): -0.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 268 (1990) → 323 (2023): 20.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 161, of which 8.7 % second homes and 9.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 2.9 km SFood shop — 2.9 km SPharmacy — 2.9 km SGP — 3.6 km SWPrimary school — 4.4 km S Straight-line, from the mairie, in the direction given. Services in the same town share a spoke. Distance is not travel time: a pass or an estuary can double it.

Bakery (Jaulgonne): 2.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Jaulgonne): 2.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Jaulgonne): 3.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Jaulgonne): 2.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Courtemont-Varennes): 4.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.3

Days at or below 0 °C 59.8

Muggy days a summer 1

Each track runs from the 5th to the 95th percentile of the 34,141 communes with that measurement; the tick is the median. A value beyond either end sits at the end and is marked ▸.

An average of 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 60 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CREZANCY weather station, 7.9 km away at 125 m; the village itself is at 175 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at BLESMES, 13.2 km away at 222 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 759 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CREZANCY, 7.9 km away at 125 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02164/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02164/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02164/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02164/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02389
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02228
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

Villages like this one

Matched on size, density, second homes and which everyday shops and services are present — not on the score, so a village of the same kind that is doing better or worse shows up rather than being hidden.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Symphorien-sur-Saône	21	259 km SE	322	11.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Comigne	11	665 km S	328	16.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 47 % · humidity 29 %
Bazoches-les-Hautes	28	166 km SW	330	11.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Roy-Boissy	60	129 km NW	328	13	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Domvast	80	168 km NW	333	16.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Courcelles-le-Roi	45	145 km SW	316	13.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 99 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Roy-Boissy	60	129 km NW	328	13	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Courcelles-le-Roi	45	145 km SW	316	13.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 99 %
Bazoches-les-Hautes	28	166 km SW	330	11.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Domvast	80	168 km NW	333	16.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Symphorien-sur-Saône	21	259 km SE	322	11.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Comigne	11	665 km S	328	16.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 47 % · humidity 29 %

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…and in much the same climate

The same match on size and services, narrowed to communes whose summers, winters and summer humidity are all close to Le Charmel's. All three are required, so this section is absent for the 11.8 % of communes with no humidity station near enough to measure: two temperature axes alone cannot tell a muggy coast from a dry one.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bazoches-les-Hautes	28	166 km SW	330	11.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Roy-Boissy	60	129 km NW	328	13	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Ligsdorf	68	332 km SE	317	10.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Montigny-sur-Crécy	02	67 km N	306	10.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Thibouville	27	201 km W	328	15.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Senots	60	114 km W	331	14.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

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